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Title:

Chemistry and science fiction / Jack H. Stocker, editor.

Publisher:

American Chemical Society,

Copyright Date:

c1998

Description:

xxii, 292 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Science fiction, American--History and criticism.
Science fiction, English--History and criticism.
Science fiction films--History and criticism.
Science fiction--Study and teaching
Chemistry in literature.
Literature and science.

Other Authors:

Stocker, Jack H., 1924-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-284) and index.

Contents:

Introduction / James Gunn -- An overview -- A science fiction primer for the uninitiated / Jack H. Stocker -- Science in science fiction : a writer's perspective / Connie Willis -- History and tradition -- The search for a definition of mankind : H.G. Wells and his predecessors / Ben B. Chastain -- Planetary chemistry in 100 years of science fiction / Mark A. Nanny -- Beryllium, thiotimoline, and pâté de fois gras : chemistry in the science fiction of Isaac Asimov / Ben B. Chastain -- The improbable properties of imipolex G : chemistry and materials science in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's rainbow / Carl Trindle -- Sherlock Holmes : the eccentric chemist / James F. O'Brien -- The right environment : using real chemistry as a basis for science fiction / Harry E. Pence -- On the covers of science fiction magazines / Jack H. Stocker -- The new media : television and the movies -- The endochronic properties of resublimated thiotimoline / Isaac Asimov -- Pâté de fois gras / Isaac Asimov -- Temporal chirality : the Burgenstock communication / Michael J.S. Dewan -- Encouraging creativity in the classroom -- Science fiction : a classroom resource / Jack H. Stocker -- Using science fiction to help teach science : a survey of chemists and physicists / Clarence J. Murphy, Mary Ann Mogus, and Patricia M. Crotty -- Space, time, and education / John E. Arnold.

ISBN:

9780841232488
0841232482

OCLC:

(OCoLC)38353728

LCCN:

98004720

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)